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   From: herpem@bigpond.com   
      
   "Peter Webb"  wrote in message   
   news:4983e8a8$0$20975$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...   
   > Atheists have done lots of bad things, but not because they are atheists,   
   > but because they are bad people.   
   >   
   > Whereas Muslim terrorists do bad things because they are Muslims.   
   >   
   > Atheism is not comparable to having religious beliefs; religious nutters   
   > quite often kill people for religious reasons; atheists do not. Atheism is   
   > not a religion, and it does not dictate how people should live and who   
   > they should hate.   
   >   
      
   Let me see if I got that right.   
   Atheists do bad thinngs because they are bad people.   
   Christians do bad things, not because they are bad people, but because they   
   are religious.   
   Is that an Irish joke?   
      
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